On second thoughts I will take your bet straight up. SA to win the series. I was going to make a multi element bet around counting how many centuries and 5 wicket bags but I figure SA will win that as well.

So yes one month - go easy on me if/when you win though.

Cheers

You're on. I lose if series is drawn, provided at least one game is not "significantly" affected by the weather. (reliable sources tell me that you guys live on or in a cloud?)

You're on. I lose if series is drawn, provided at least one game is not "significantly" affected by the weather. (reliable sources tell me that you guys live on or in a cloud?)

Edit: We're talking tests only, of course. Yes?

Aotearoa baby.

Yep just tests -

I got great enjoyment shouting "WHY THE **** ISN'T THIS GAME BEING PLAYED AT THE BASIN?!>!?!?" to reasonably significant cheers from the sparse crowd

one day NZ will bring chappell to his knees in a puddle of his own tears and you'll see Phlegm on his belly greedily tasting every delicious tear before watching the hope fade from that old ****s eyes.

It's a pity the Tests are at the end of the tour. Always prefer them at the start before the pajama party.

I always enjoy the ODIs a lot more when I can watch them with an eye on the form, rhythm etc of players ahead of the Test series, especially those on the touring side. When they're an afterthought I don't really care much.

I always enjoy the ODIs a lot more when I can watch them with an eye on the form, rhythm etc of players ahead of the Test series, especially those on the touring side. When they're an afterthought I don't really care much.

Honestly the old team isn't that bad - I know we have better openers now - but Styris is just as good as Brownlie. Vincent wasn't a bad player and Williamson his counterpart is yet to prove himself consistently.
The bowling looks fine back then apart from gillespie - so our team now is only slightly better in my books - yet we are going into this with guarded optimism and I even made an avatar bet yikes.

That 2007 side was awful tbh. The team sheet flatters it. Papps and Cumming had no answers, Styris was dire and celebrated the series by retiring, and the gaping holes in Taylor's game were made very evident.

Iain O'Brien was a bit poo, and Gillespie actually performed quite well.

Originally Posted by Athlai

Jeets doesn't really deserve to be bowling.

Originally Posted by Dan

in the future where we're all social justice-y Cribb can ride down the street to pick up some raw milk from Coles on a motorised esky while smoking meth, firing an RPG into the air, and carrying the case of British-import Stella he's polygamously (and privately) married alongside a genderfluid Zambian businessperson and a coke-snorting 18-year-old cyborg girl.

That 2007 side was awful tbh. The team sheet flatters it. Papps and Cumming had no answers, Styris was dire and celebrated the series by retiring, and the gaping holes in Taylor's game were made very evident.

Iain O'Brien was a bit poo, and Gillespie actually performed quite well.

I did mention the upgrade in openers - but in general at this stage the 2012 team is just "on paper" as well so we should just be judging by the cachet of their names in 2007 as opposed to how they played. With the exception of Taylor who you pointed out has improved.